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Year: 2007 Week: 36 Number: 80

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An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community

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=== Technical news ===

[Map function] - A javascript plugin is created that can provide an interactive map to an article and jump to other articles. This system is already in use on several Wikipedias. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument

=== Foundation ===

[Fundraiser] - A new fundraiser is coming. Like it looks now it will be from September 23 to November 22.

[Wikinews Foundation?] - A proposal has been raised on Foundation-l to found a Wikinews foundation for the Wikinews project. This mostly to be able to provide accreditation for wikinews reporters. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/19300

[Wikimania 2008] - Bidding for the location of next Wikimania opens formally ... and is already closed by now. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids

=== Community ===

[Support Wikipedia] - A few Wikipedias show since long a small note to anonymous users to suggest a donation to the WMF. One of those is the English language Wikipedia. That notice has now grown a fair deal larger on that wiki. Also a second, small, anon notice is included to draw attention of the visitors about the way wikipedia differs from other websites and how one should use wikipedia. Currently that is "Researching with Wikipedia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia

=== Media ===

[Wikiscanner] - has turned out as perfect topic for many newspapers around the world to fill there paper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-09-03/WikiSca...

[WikipediaWeekly] - A new edition reflecting about the last Wikimania and next Wikimania http://wikipediaweekly.org/2007/09/04/wikipedia-weekly-28/

=== Stats ===

[EN Wikinews] has written 10,000 news articles since its creation. http://en.wikinews.org

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